Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1651-95
“Who thankless flees me, I with love pursue; Who loving follows me, I thankless flee: To him who spurns my love, I bend the knee.”
on gender: “If Aristotle had done some cooking, he would have written more.”
a rationalist passion for knowledge: “...just to see if by studying, I might grow less ignorant.”
on method: “...the expositors are like an open hand and the ecclesiastics like a closed fist.”